Genesis - Part 25 | Pastor Paul McGee

The. We killed a light rushing.

Wind we see. The flame of fire burning light.

We killed. A quench of old joy.

Please see the edits of your heart here.

Break out, break out. Let your fire fall.

Let your spirit move. Break out, break out.

Lay out the stalling blue, your anointing break out.

We feel highly rushing wind. We see the flame of fire.

Very right we. Build principal joy.

We see the evidence of God power here.

Break out, break out. Let your fire fall.

Let your spirit move. Break out break.

Out. Letting out the styling move of

your anointing Wake up. We can.

Let your brain move. Your power all over this place.

We hear the wrong, we don't need to read.

It to read. We hear our child break.

We're moving our power all over this place.

We hear the wrong VV. We hear our child break.

We're moving our power all over this place.

We hear the wrong VV. We feel our child pray.

We're moving your pirate all over this place.

We hear the rumbling up between Wake.

Out. Wake out.

Let your fire fall. Let your spirit move.

Wake out. Break, break out.

What am I starving through? Your anointing break out.

Break out. At your fireball at your moon.

Break out. Break out.

You're. Anointing break.

Out we will watch out bring the mood

of color all over this place. They hear the wrongly of VV.

We feel our child break a moving of power all over this place.

We hear the wrongly of victory. Big We feel our child break a

moving of power all over this place.

We hear the wrongly of victory, victory or we build a child

break. We're moving your power all over

this place. We hear the wrongly of victory.

Break out, break out. Let your fireball, let your

spirit. Move.

Break out. Somebody shout VV in the house

tonight. Hallelujah, let it break out.

Look at your neighbor and say let it break out.

Hallelujah. I'm so thankful for a move of

God. What he has been doing in the

church house, what he's been doing in our church family, the

word that he spoke a week or two ago in the tongues message that

he was removing the constricting of the enemy to where we could

feel freedom. And you can look around the room

and see people that are beginning to experience freedom.

Sister Krista, God is going to give you the Holy Ghost.

She's desiring the Holy Ghost. She said.

I almost was right there. You all saw it like I did.

The Holy Ghost was all over her this morning.

And God is going to feel her. And I looked at brother child

and I said, you're next. God is moving on people.

He is responding to our prayers, to our worship, to our

desperation. If we will be intentional about

giving God what he is worthy of, He will respond.

He will come down and inhabit his praises.

Can you lift your hands? I love you, Jesus, I worship

you. Lord God, we welcome you.

Do what you want to do tonight. Shall we describe it?

Meditate it? Can you picture yourself?

There are no colours to paint the whole picture, not enough

words to ever say when about wonderful and beautiful and.

Glorious and. Holy is merciful and powerful.

Who we talking? About that's my key we take

glory give them all the order all together worthy who we

talking about that's my key there's the one before you yes

we will before you all this is for you who we're.

Talking about, that's my key. She can tell you wish I could

describe it, but I can't contain it, can't keep the chill myself.

There aren't enough colors to paint the whole picture.

Not enough what you must say what I found wonderful and

beautiful and going Yes and hope.

Here's the simple and powerful who we're talking.

About That's my key. We play glory.

Give them all the others all together worthy.

Who we're talking about. That's my key.

There's no one before you. Yes, we will adore you.

All of this is for you. Who we're talking about.

That's my key. The blocks might without joining

the chorus. There aren't enough notes to

make the harmony. It's the song from the angels,

angels and the ages, and they are that harmony for me, these

wonderful and beautiful, glorious and.

Holy is a simple and powerful who we talking about, That's my

key. We take glory, give them all the

honor all together. Wording who we're talking about,

that's my key. There's the one before you.

Yes, we will adore you all. This is for you.

Who we're talking about. That's my key.

I love you on her. I'm not letting the rocks cry.

Without joining the chorus, there aren't enough notes to

make the harmony. Oh, it's the song of me.

Angels, Angels and the ages hate.

We told they aren't that. How much it for me?

Wonderful and beautiful and glory and holy.

He is merciful and powerful. Who we're talking about.

That's my key. We declare the glory.

Give them all the others, all together.

Worthy. Who we're talking about.

That's my key. There's the one before you.

Yes, we will adore you. Holy, this is for you.

Who we're talking. About that's my key.

That's my key. That's my, that's my God.

That's my shepherd, my protector.

That's my key, That's my anchor tip, and that's my King.

That's my God, that's my shepherd, my protector, that's

my king, That's my Rd. that's my ankle, my tip.

And who we talking about? That's my king.

We declare the glory. Give them all.

Holy and wordy who we're talking about.

That's my King. There's the one before you.

Yes, we will adore you. Hold this for you.

Who we're talking about. That's my king.

We may glory give them all the other Holy and wordy who we're

talking about. That's my King.

There's one before you. Yes, we will adore you, calling

for you. Who we talking about, that's my

key. Who we talking about, That's my

key. Who we talking about, that's my

key. Who we talking about, that's my

key. Who we talking about?

That's my key. Not letting the rocks cry

without joining the chorus. There aren't enough notes to

make the harmony. Oh, it's.

The Song of the. Angels to all the ages, we told

they are that heavens and mourning.

He's wonderful and beautiful and gloryless and holy.

He is merciful and powerful. Who we're talking about, that's

my key. We will tell you glory.

Give them all the order all together worthy.

Who we're talking about, that's my key.

There's the one before you. Yes, we will enjoy you all is

for you. Who we're talking about.

That's my key. That's my key.

That's my key, that's my guard. Somebody's singing tonight.

That's my shepherd, my protector.

That's my key. That's my ride.

That's my yanker, naughty feather.

That's my key, that's my guard, that's my shepherd, my

protector, that's my key. That's my God, That's my

protector. My who we're talking about,

that's my key. We take glory all together.

Worthy who we're talking about, that's my key.

Who we're talking about, that's my king.

Who we're talking about, that's my king.

Who we're talking about, that's my king.

Who we're talking about, that's my king.

Who we're talking about, that's my.

King. Oh, if you're glad he's your

king, why don't you give him praise?

Hallelujah, we magnify you, Jesus.

Hallelujah. Oh, why don't you lift your

hands all over this house tonight and praise him.

Oh, we magnify you, Jesus. I was blind and I was running

out of time. Staying separating the bridge

was far too. High, but from the far side of

the castle you held me in your sight.

So you made a way across. The great daylight left behind

of. This world to building and.

There hath the. Cross you pay.

The dead I owe you go my chain, free my gold and.

Blow. The birds out my heart thank.

You, Jesus, Lord, by the light of life, thank you, Jesus, it

has. Washed me white thank you Jesus

have saved my life from. Me.

From the darkness it is too long as I.

I took my legs inside my tomb of sea.

You were buried for three. Days.

But then you walked right out again and now dead has no sea in

life, has no way or I hop into it.

Thank you Jesus. Roughly from his darkness is to.

The longest life. There's nothing stronger than

the wonder working power of the night.

Now that calls the sons and daughters, we are ready to find

our father through them. The land, the the land, there is

nothing stronger. There's no wonder where the

power of the land, the land calls the sons and daughters,

your red fire power through the air is not.

The stronger and the wine you work, your power runs by the

light, the light that calls the sons and daughters.

We are ransomed by our father, by the life, by the life there

is not the stronger than the wanderer can power up, by the

life, by the life that calls his sons and daughters.

We. Are ransom by your mother.

Thy life, thy life. Thank you Jesus.

For thy life upon Thank you Jesus, it has washed me white.

Give Jesus, you have saved my life from me, from the darkness.

Into the longest heart for me to.

Leave. Glory to heal, then to my heart

was the blood of heart. Glory to His day, or we will see

glory to His day. Holy to.

Give that to. My heart was the blood of my

holy to. Glory to your name, Jesus.

Glory to your name. Hallelujah.

Jesus, we're going to go to him in prayer, bring the needs

before Him. I don't have any additional

needs that from what I had this morning, thank you, Jesus.

But we do want to continue. Remember the ones I spoke of,

Jim Stansfield, Sister Brenda's sister Kathy with surgery

tomorrow, Sister Natalie Trout, the Victory Church, the

Thornbrook family, and our prison team.

Those are the needs that I have tonight.

If anyone has a need, you can just raise your hand.

God knows all about it. Let's just keep that hand

lifted. Let's begin to speak with him.

Jesus, we bring these needs before you.

We are so thankful You are a God that hears us.

God, Lord, that your arm is not short concerning your promises.

Lord, you are more than able to answer and meet every need.

God to move in every situation. God, you see the circumstances.

God of your people tonight. God, I pray that you would move

tonight. God, for these names.

God that I have mentioned. God be with them.

God strengthen them, heal them. God, touch their bodies.

God, Lord, you are acquainted, God, with all of our ways.

God, you've seen the infirmities, God, the diseases,

the things, God, that have plagued, Lord, their bodies.

And I pray, God for healing. I pray for miracles.

I pray, God, that your will would be accomplished.

Above all, we trust you, Lord. God, whatever you choose to do,

God, we still trust you. God, we thank you God for what

you're going to do, Lord, what you're doing that we cannot see,

Lord, in your glory that it would be revealed, God, through

the circumstances, God, Lord, the things that we don't

understand while we're walking through, God, the problems that

we're facing that don't make sense.

I pray the Lord, that you would show yourself, God, in the midst

of those times, God, Lord, that you would receive the glory,

that you would receive the honor.

God, Lord, I pray draw us closer to you than ever before.

Hallelujah, we give you all the praise in the name of Jesus and

the church. Say in Jesus name, Hallelujah.

If you need prayer, you can come tonight.

Thank you Jesus. Call me out in the world they

are known would be basic. There I find you in the midst my

fame. I will call upon your head, in

my eyes above the wind, when no ships rise.

My soul will rest in your head where I am.

Your sovereign. I will call upon your way.

Keep my eyes above the ways with oceans right as will rest in

your place where I am. Your grace surrounds deepest

waters. Your sovereign head will be

mine. With me they fell, and we

surround me. Lord, you've never hailed, and

you won't start now. So I will call on your way, keep

my eyes open way when the ocean 's eyes, my soul will rest in

your way where I am. Spirit, lead me where my trust

is with our borders. Let me walk upon the waters

wherever you would call me. Take me deeper than I could ever

wonder, and my ain't gonna be made stronger in the presence of

my Savior Spirit. Lead me where my trust is

Without Borders. Let me rock upon the waters

wherever you will call me. Take me deeper than my finger

and the wonder in my faithful being a stronger in the praises

of my Savior Spirit lead. You where my trust is without

border and we want to fall in the water within you.

With all me. Take me deep that my king could

have wandered, and my faith will be made stronger in the presence

of my take off spirit. Lead me where my trust is

Without Borders. Let me walk all the waters, ever

you call me, take me deep that might need to ever wander.

And my faith will be made stronger in the presence of my

trailer. Of the way with us to drive my

soul rest in your place I. Am I will fall upon.

With me my. Hallelujah.

Let's take one more moment just to commune with them.

Thank you, Jesus, God, I'm thankful, God, that I not only

know who you are, but God, Thank you that you know who I am.

You are mine, God, and I am yours.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Isn't that so reassuring to you

tonight? It's reassuring to me.

I not only know who he is, but he knows our name.

He knows who we are. Scripture says He knows the very

number of hairs on our head for everyone around this world,

around this globe, the number of people.

He knows that detail about everyone.

He's amazing. He is amazing.

You can return to your seats and be seated if you like tonight.

Thank you, Jesus. We're going to take up our

offering brother Freddie for the Reese, if you'll come.

I'm not going to go through all the announcements this morning.

Pastor has printed out a schedule for the month of April

and the month of May, and it's out there in the lobby on the

board. So some of these things that

I've been talking about, you can walk right out in the lobby

before you leave and you can kind of look over, you can take

a screenshot with your phone and have it on your phone to know

everything that's going on. All right, being much prayer for

the prison team. I did fail to mention earlier

during our prayer request, and I apologize.

Brother Malone, Sister Sheila are traveling home today from

Texas and we want to pray that God keeps his hand up on them.

And Sister Jessica had messaged me also that she'd be watching

online tonight, so we need to pray for her as well.

And I believe everything else. You guys pretty much can just

look out there on the board. I will say that a pastor did

hear back from Doctor Graham and we going to have a just a double

hitter next Sunday. So basically we're kind of just

going to bring a prison service back to FAC next Sunday morning.

All right, We're going to have a song.

We're going to have a speaker. We have a song, have a speaker,

and who knows what God will do. I'm just telling you.

So I'm looking forward y'all. You do not want to miss that.

I'm telling you, you don't want to miss.

It's going to be awesome. Don't tell him what God will do.

If there's any other announcements, Pastor can

mention them. The only one I will mention is

April 28th. Mark that down that if you want

to register to be at camp, you want to make note of that date.

That's extremely important. So, Brother Freddie, will you

pray for us tonight? The.

Hallelujah, someone say Hallelujah.

Praise the Lord all my life. Praise Hallelujah.

He may another Alex is going to be ministering here for us

tonight. The only additional thing I want

to make mention to you, we got hands that were up for fasting

this week leading up to prison. Also on the guest table there is

a sign up sheet for praying while people from the church are

in prison. So we basically have three

sessions, one on Friday, 2:00 on Saturday.

There'll be two preachers each session.

So we're going to have six services basically.

And so there is the hours that will actually be in service and

doing these things. They're back there on the list.

I got it broken up in 30 minute increments of prayer.

If you're like, well, I'd like to take an hour wherever you

sign your name. All right, what you can take as

much as you want, but we'd love to have that time that we're

actually engaged in service to be covered in prayer.

A man in by faith, we'll come back to be able to report what

the Lord has done, Amen, With those services, Amen.

So just be mindful of that this evening, Amen.

Brother Alex is here, Amen. I'm sorry that he just, he just,

he had to go get the shovel. You know, I, I don't know when

I'm not going to ask if there's tarps and cylinder blocks

involved, but then maybe there's, hopefully there's not a

crime scene on the ground by now, Amen.

But we're thankful to have him. We we had a good representation

this weekend that went up to be a part of Sister Michelle

Thornburg's funeral and brother Alex and sister Grace with some

of them. And I know something like that

can just make a weekend that much tighter.

I mean, a 3 1/2 hour drive round tip.

I mean, we were gone for 11 hours on Saturday.

And so, but then to come here and minister and then with your

regular life and all your obligations and music and

singing, the better the the list can just get very long.

Amen. So let's, let's lend the ear and

lend hearts to tonight, to what the Spirit would say to us this

evening, shall we? Amen.

Can we magnify God one more time?

Amen. His brother Alex will come here

this evening. Father, we adore you, God.

We acknowledge you, Lord Jesus, in this place, and we're

thankful, Lord, for your mercy and your goodnesses.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Oh Lord, your good.

Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah.

Oh, he's good. Oh Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Jesus, Amen. Amen.

Thank you, Jesus. Thankful to be in the House of

the Lord tonight. Amen.

It is good. It is good.

I am. I'm grateful for, for all of you

church family, love and appreciate.

You love and appreciate my pastor and pastor's wife and

their impact and love and support on my wife and I as well

as our Bishop and his wife, my grandparents.

They are, they are pillars. They are pillars of this church

and I am so grateful, so grateful to have them in my life

and so grateful that they are here and my, my parents, they

have have been so supportive and loving and, and beneficial and

helpful and, and training and all these different things

throughout the years. I'm so grateful and I'm, I'm,

I'm so grateful for my wife, so grateful for my wife.

This pastor says when you go, when you go to these places, it

was spoken this morning. You, you go, you, you sit and

you ponder on a life, and a life that, as flesh would seem, would

take in too soon. A wife, a mother, a daughter.

And I sit there in entering into a new season of life, perplexed

even more so than I would have been imagining.

The emotions, turmoil, the trials that await.

And I think to myself during that time, and I I cry and you

as if you know me. It's not because I don't care,

but I don't cry often. I don't know why I've tried, but

I sit there and I cry because I don't know what I'd do without

her. You need to take every precious

moment that we have with those that we love because we don't

know what tomorrow holds. We don't know what tomorrow

holds. So I'm thankful for her and I'm

very, very, very excited. This week.

We should find out the gender of the baby.

And so we're ecstatic about that.

Yes, Say, man, I'm very excited about that.

So very grateful. Thank you for your love and

support. If you could stand and turn to

Genesis 26 and 18. Genesis.

Yeah, I got a little bit ahead of Pastor, but we're in.

He'll catch up. He'll catch up.

I'm just kind of skipping around here.

Very simple verse here. Genesis 26 and 18 this is and

Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in

the days of Abraham, his father. For the Philistines had stopped

them after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after

the names by which his father had called them for a little

while. Tonight it, it may be overly

simple, I'm not sure. And brother Reese, just so you

know, I'm not getting it dirty. I, I, I rinsed it in the back,

made sure the the edge is clean. But tonight I want to speak on

re dig the wells. Re dig the wells.

If you set your Bibles down, raise your hands.

Help me pray. Father, I ask you just to move

in this place. Lord, let your will be done.

Lord, have your way, God. Lord touch your servant.

Lord power speak what needs to be spoken tonight.

Your will. Lord, all divine and all power

and glory. Prepare hearts and minds as a

planting ground for your word. Lord, we will return.

Lord praise and glory unto you in Jesus mighty name that we

pray Hallelujah and everyone said in Jesus name.

Jesus name you may be seated tonight re dig the wells.

Good job Trevor, see it was fine re dig the wells.

We come upon this passage of scripture this one verse here

and we have Isaac Abraham's son. This is after his father had

passed the, the Philistines and stopped up these wells over,

over the course of Abraham's life that he had dug.

And he called their names after the names by which his father

had called them before. Before we get to celebrate these

re diggings, if you will, of those wells, we, we have to

understand what those wells really were.

They were physical sources of water and I'm sure in the desert

they said Amen. But they were also spiritual

markers of promise to Abraham. These wells were monuments of

faith. They were.

They were dug during moments of obedience, trust, and covenant

with God. Every well Abraham dug wasn't

just about hydration. It was about inheritance of the

Kingdom of God. It was a declaration that here

in this dry land God will provide.

These wells were life lines in a wilderness.

They were, they sustained families and herds and and the

promise itself of the promised people.

But something tragic happened after Abraham had passed away

and the Philistines came and they stopped the wells.

They covered them with dirt. They buried, they buried the

blessing, if you will. Why on earth would you cover up

a perfectly good well, you're in the desert.

Why on earth would you cover up a perfectly good source of

water? But it was an attack.

It wasn't an attack on infrastructure.

It wasn't an attack on on the water.

It was an attack on legacy, on memory, identity.

The very sign, one of the very physical signs that Abraham had

walked with God that people could point to and say this,

this well was dug by Abraham in this moment in time when he was

having covenant with God. And he prayed and he's, he's

dwelling, dwelling in the place of promise.

And he digs a well for covenant. And Isaac is walking through

this same land that it was promised to him and promised to

his father. And he's dwelling in the place

of promise. And he looks around and

something is missing. The wells have been buried.

There's land of plenty. There is, there is promise of

plenty, but there is no water, there is no flow.

There is no evidence of his father's faith physically to the

eye. And so Isaac is faced with this

choice. Does he settle for land that

looks like promise but lacks power?

Or does he do the hard work of going back and recovering and

restoring and reconnecting what was lost?

We we are not so different today.

Our generation today walks on in the shadows if you will, and on

the shoulders of giants. We benefit from battles that we

did not have to fight. We enjoy truths that we did not

have to uncover. The question remains is that

what have we done with the wells?

Have we guarded them? Have we maintained them or have

we let them be covered by the debris, by the dirt of life?

This isn't just about Isaac's story.

It's about our story and reflection.

And before we go any further, we have to think, are there things?

Are there habits? Are there disciplines and

convictions and and commitments that weren't once we're alive

but have been buried? Before Isaac ever picked up a

shovel before, before Abraham, he had already dug the wells.

Abraham had already dug the wells.

Isaac didn't even pick up a shovel yet, and he knew the

wells had been dug at some point.

These weren't just practical water sources.

They were covenant. And in Genesis 2125, it says,

and Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which

Abimelech servants had violently taken away.

And Abimelech said, I would not. Who hath done this thing?

Neither didst thou tell me? Neither yet I heard of it.

But today we read about Abraham confronting Abimelech over a

well. We're confronting over water.

No, we're not confronting truly over water.

Abraham was was staking claim of territory by putting a well

here. He wasn't taking claim of

territory by swords. He was taking claim territory by

wells. It continues on in chapter 21,

verse 30. And it says, and he said, for

the seven all lambs shalt thou make of my hand, that they may

be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba because they're,

they're, they swear both of them.

Abraham seals this covenant with Abimelech over a well that he

had dug. He he named it Beersheba, which

means well of the oath. This was more than just a water

dispute. It was a spiritual moment.

Abraham dug, he defended and he named the well to establish

peace and testimony of God. And immediately after that it

goes on and Abraham plants a Grove in Beersheba and he calls

upon the name of the Lord, and he worships at the place of the

well. See this, this was not just a

place where they went to just go drink of water.

This was a place where he got to partake of the living water.

He got to partake of relationship with God at the

well. He he worshipped at the place of

the well and for all the wells, it says in Genesis 2615.

It says for all the wells which his father's servants had digged

in the days of Abraham his father.

The Philistines had stopped them and filled them with the earth.

If they filled them, they were afraid.

Not afraid of water. They were afraid of the meaning

behind those wells. They felt threatened.

They felt threatened enough that that Isaac didn't have to dig,

dig new ones. It was just the fact that they

were trying to cover it up because they were afraid of what

these wells meant. Isaac wasn't starting from

scratch. He had a legacy to go and re re

bring to the surface if you will.

He was standing on a legacy. He just had to find the wells.

The first thing recognizing is just because the well has been

stopped up doesn't mean the water dried up.

The Philistines didn't destroy the underground source, they

were just trying to cover up and make it look like it hadn't been

there to begin with. The flow beneath the surface was

still active. It was still present, but it was

waiting to be accessed. It was waiting and, and you may

feel spiritually dry, you may feel at once the flow was in

your life. But I'm here to remind you, the

water is still there. The question is, are we going to

draw from it? It's waiting to be drawn, but

are we going to draw from it? God has not stopped moving.

His spirit has not stopped flowing.

His presence has not been gone. It may just be buried.

It's been covered up by life, by distraction, by pain, by

disappointment. And we, we try to say that God

isn't moving, but maybe we just aren't drawing from the well.

Sometimes it's not even sin that buries our wells.

Sometimes it's just a, a slow accumulation of neglect.

That would, if, if Abraham just stopped going to those wells,

then over time, there would be dust, there would be rain, there

would be things that would ruin the well probably.

But he went back to those wells, I guarantee you.

And he, he maintained them and he prayed at them again and he

drove drew from them. It was he was not lazy in his

action of the wells. He was, he did not compromise in

his action of digging the wells and having the wells.

He did not lack in prayer or worship at the wells.

He he was focusing on the flow and maintaining it.

The good news we have is we can dig again.

We don't need a new source. You don't need a new source.

You need to clear debris, get the dirt out of the way.

The flow will return if you can get the dirt out of the way.

Isaac didn't go out. He didn't go out looking for new

water source. He knew where he needed to dig.

See, that's the thing. Sometimes we know where we need

to dig. But.

We don't want to. Oh, that Cree, I don't have time

for that. I got all this.

I do all these extracurriculars and all these extra things and I

don't know if I can make room for such an I don't know if I

can make room for prayer in my life.

Pastor, you don't know how busy I am.

I love it when people people tell me you don't know how busy

I am. I'm like, would you like me to

give you a list of what I have in my head and wrote down and

all the different calendars and all the different announcements

and all of the 25,000 reminder alarms that my wife goes off and

I have to go over and snooze. I'm like, OK, it says this.

And she's like, oh, just snooze and I'll get to it.

I'm like, all right, OK, kind of defeats the purpose of a

reminder, but. OK.

I could say that because I have the mic, I'll get, I'll get hit

later, but that's fine. In a world that is constantly

chasing the next new thing, the new methods, the new ideas, the

new revelations. Isaac is teaching us here in

this verse the power of going back to what works.

The wells of our fathers still hold water.

The wells of the apostles still hold water.

The old paths are still a good way are still the good way.

The principles and truths that brought revival in the past and

generations, they can bring revival today.

We don't need to reinvent the wheel and find another water

source. We need to go back and re dig

where our forefathers were once before.

Some of us have been tempted to walk away from that foundation.

Replace deep truths with some shallow inspiration, if you

will. The answer is not is not to move

on. The answer is to return.

Returning to the place where God had met you before.

Returning to the place where you've heard that others had met

God before. You don't need an Apostolic

pedigree in order to re dig a well in this instant.

It just so happens that Isaac was Abraham's, Abraham's son.

But it didn't have to be that way.

It could have been someone down the line that hadn't been hadn't

known Abraham and was so far removed from Abraham.

And if if Isaac hadn't re dug the wells, they could have re

dug those wells. It wasn't about pedigree.

It was about returning to what? Where it was, returning to the

well, returning to the altar, returning to the word.

And then another interesting thing is, is that Isaac didn't

rename the wells. He called them by the names his

father had given them. Jude 1/3 in that segment of

Scripture says earnestly contend for the faith which was once

delivered into the Saints. Why does that matter?

Because names carry weight. We saw it already in our

reading. Beersheba had a meaning well of

the oath and and for for there to be meaning.

It represents identity, it represents purpose, it

represents legacy. When Isaac called those wells by

the same name, he's saying, I still believe what my father

stood for. I still believe what God did

back then and I believe that it will still happen now.

We live in a time where where people are trying to rename

everything. Holiness is now called what

legalism. Conviction is now called

judgment. Truth is now an opinion.

That that's that's I'm going to quote Pastor Nate Whitley for a

second. That's not my truth, OK?

That's not my truth. All right?

You have your truth and that's my truth.

It is an opinion. But if it was holy back then,

it's holy today. If it was truth back then, it is

truth now. We don't need to rename things

around here. We need to stand upon the Word

of God and say this is the truth.

This is holiness, this is conviction.

Do not let the world compromise. Compromise and convince you to

rename what God has already established.

Call it what it is and let the flow return.

So when, when Isaac re digged those wells, see he took, he

took his shovel and and he took probably some people and he's

going out. And I have to believe for many

of them, Isaac was present when Abraham was digging some wells.

So he probably already knew. And that's, that's another thing

we we need, we need a generation of people.

We need a generation that the older generation to show the

next generation where the wells are at.

Mentorship generation. Between.

There needs to be a link between between Kingdom generations that

says this is where this well is at.

Don't ever lose sight of this well when I'm gone.

You need to maintain this well. Maintain it now with me, but you

need to maintain this. Well, I'm going to.

Show you how to pray, I'm going to show you how to fast.

I'm going to show you how to read your Bible.

We're going to dig and maintain this well together and we are

going to walk side by side. So when I'm gone, guess what?

You can grab the next generation and you can show them where the

wells are at, so. Isaac already knew.

He already knew. Where to go?

He knew where the wells were at, so he's just going back and he

said, come on boys, we're going to go find my father's wells.

We're going to go find them. These are places of consecration

that yes, there's water and we'll drink from that, but these

are places of consecration. We're going to take this and we

are going to re dig and reclaim, reclaim what has been taken from

us, retake the wells, re dig the wells.

And so he goes, not only did the water return, the water was

still there. It was still flowing, but the

dry ground became fruitful. The land came back to life.

Because when the well flows, everything around it changes.

When you start to have some flow going on, you start to have some

water going. You start to realize there's

there's stuff going on. It doesn't just impact you.

You digging, you re digging. Some wells and getting.

Back to some consecration in your life doesn't just affect

you. The herdsmen of Guerra began.

To argue, during this time, after the water returned, there

was resistance. Of course.

Of course there was resistance. Anytime you start digging, enemy

will push back. Anytime you begin to pursue God

again, there will be a fight. But Isaac did not stop.

He did not stop. He just kept digging.

They're the naysayers are over there and they are arguing and

he's just, he may have just sit there and said, boys, you know

what, just don't even look up. Don't even look up.

Just keep digging. Don't let it bother you.

Just keep digging. We need to have a mentality like

that nowadays because there's so many naysayers.

There's so many things that come to try to distract us and get in

our minds and our heads and what if this and what if that.

We just need to keep our head down and focus on the well.

We need to keep our head down and focus on the word, focus on

prayer. We need to focus on him instead

of trying to let the outward, the external, try to try to tell

us something different. They don't know anything about

this. Well, you do.

And eventually he reached the place called.

Riboth, which means room, even said in Genesis 2622 it says now

the Lord has made room for us and we will be fruitful in the

land. What does that mean?

Well, that means when you dig by faith, God will make room.

He fights our battles when you. When you start to dig and you do

it by faith and you just, you just keep on keeping on.

He will make room. I don't know what that looks

like for you, but I can, I can think he'll make room in your

schedule. We always complain, oh, I'm so

busy, I can't do the blah blah. He'll make room for your

schedule. He'll make room.

He'll make room and things that you think are insignificant to

him. He will make room for you to

have opportunities to witness to people and bring people

alongside the well and say this is this is what I draw from.

It's not me. This is what I draw from.

That's what. Happens when you keep digging.

You, you pat you when you press past opposition and you push

through the conflict and the things that go on around.

God brings you to a place of fruitfulness, a place of

overflow and of peace. Others will drink from what?

You. Dig your obedience does.

Not just. Bless you.

It blesses your family. It blesses your church.

It blesses your community. Your breakthrough could become

someone else's lifeline that they can hold on to.

So keep digging. When we get started, don't stop.

So many people don't I, I always think of those that, that you,

you, you see like the the cliparts or anything like that

is someone talking about how, how don't stop until you reach

reach gold or reach diamond or whatever it is and, and, and

they keep digging, digging, digging.

And then you see the the artist shows that it was just probably

a couple more hits, couple more feet and they would have been

there. I think of that.

And I think people get so close, so close to the truth or so

close to, to a walk with God that is going to be memorable

for them and is going to get them to God and is going to

sustain them. And then something happens and

they miss the mark and they they lose.

It and. Then there's just those that

forsake it, Jeremiah. 213 says they have.

Forsaken me in the fountain of living waters?

Sadly not. Not.

Everyone chooses to dig. Again, Scripture gives us

examples of who's those who who let their wells, so to speak, be

buried. They they may have buried them

themselves, never recovered them.

Maybe they were embarrassed by it and they decided to walk

away, recover it up. I I don't know that church or we

may be like Peter. Deny.

I don't know. Jesus.

Samson. Was called.

He was anointed. He was powerful, but he allowed

compromise to clog his his calling.

And one day he woke up and he. Didn't even realize.

That the Spirit had departed from him and he had to beg God

one more time, just one more time.

Spirit, come upon me. And he had to be led to pillars

because he could not see. When we go through times in our

lives and. We we miss the mark and and even

to the same sense of compromise, we have been blinded do not

allow. Yourself to be blinded and not.

Realize that that the Spirit in this in this sense that that

that you have been departed from because you have not been a

welcome place to Jesus the. Israelites in the wilderness

they saw. They saw miracles, as we know,

but but they allowed, they allowed constant murmuring and

rebellion to stop. Up there's flow they they

limited God, and they died in a dry place.

Saul. Saul was anointed king, but his

pride and his partial obedience caused the Spirit of the Lord to

depart from him, and he kept the title, but he lost the presence

and the Church of lady. Of Seus said we are.

Rich and we have need of nothing, but Jesus was on the

outside knocking. They were dry and they didn't

even know it. They had need of nothing.

These are warnings to us that it's possible.

To look like you're in the land of.

Promise and still have no water. Do not let your well stay

buried. I thank God for those who have.

Dug again when we go back and we look at that in that context,

Moses, he stood on the mountain and he said show me your glory.

He wasn't even satisfied with the the days before encounter.

He wanted another encounter, another memorable encounter.

David, he brought back the ark. He restored worship to the land

of God. He made room for God's presence

to dwell once again in Israel. Hezekiah opened the temple doors

and cleanse the sanctuary. He restored what had been lost,

the early church. They waited in the upper room,

hungry for the promise, and the Day of Pentecost game in the

well burst open. Those were the ones that.

Said I will not settle for DRY. Places I will not settle, we

will dig until the water flows. Doesn't matter how long it is.

We will dig until the water flows.

And I, I have to think again, Isaac knew where the wells were.

It wasn't a, he was in well. Maybe it's there or maybe it

maybe it's right. Man, that place looks familiar.

No, I believe Isaac knew exactly the spot of where to go.

And that is the thing. If we have confusion, we have

question of where to dig in our lives, where to consecrate in

our lives. If you need to ask some

questions, ask some questions, but we'll show you where to dig,

we'll show you where to consecrate, we'll show you the

direction. This is where you go.

This is what you do. We've seen what can happen when

wells are. Stopped and what's possible when

they are re digged but but not even enough to be inspired by

Isaac, Moses or David. What about us?

What wells have gone dry today in your life, in your home, in

the church as a whole, in this generation?

There's a specific wells that God is calling us to dig again

and and some of them used to flow freely in your life.

Some of them used to throw freely in the church and we have

seen a lacking of it. They have gone quiet.

They haven't stopped up, but people may not be.

Digging from it as much. As it used to.

If you can indulge me for a moment, I.

I since these wells that Abraham dug were a part of covenant with

God and and they were more than just a water source, I have some

thoughts in in in Hebrew terms of what what he could have named

them because names have meaning. It's possible that Isaac went to

the well of tefillah, which means prayer, intercession,

petition, implying engagement and relationship with God.

Re digging the well of prayer is not about just the routine or

bedtime prayers. It's talking about meaningful

spirit LED passionate prayer. The kind that presses into God

until something breaks in the spirit.

Something that says I will not leave me, like Jacob said, until

you bless me. Not letting that happen until

something breaks. The kindness shifts atmospheres,

remembering what it's like to pray until the room change.

But has prayer become dry? I imagine maybe, maybe Isaac

went. To a well of Kodesh or holiness,

sacredness. Purity set apart for.

God's use often used to describe things, people, places

consecrated unto the Lord. I'm not talking just about

outward. Appearance, I mean a heart, a

heart that is full of surrender, A life that says Lord, I want to

be clean. I want to be set apart for you.

Set apart and covenant for you. Holiness isn't about checking

boxes, it's about carrying His presence.

If we let that well get buried under compromise or culture,

it's time to dig it back up. I imagine maybe, maybe.

Isaac and went and dug a well of lacaya or or doctrine, meaning

instruction, teaching, not just education but divine guidance

with moral authority. The Acts 238 plan of salvation

is not just tradition. The Word of God is not just

tradition. When someone asks me what what

we believe, I I always say I believe this through and

through. I'm not picking apart anything.

We are taking it at its word. We let, like Pastor says

Scripture, interpret Scripture. It is not just a heritage.

It's not just oh, that's a nice religion for you.

It is truth, it is gospel, it is 19 it one God.

It is one name, Jesus name, baptism and filling of the Holy

Ghost with evidence of speaking in other tongues.

Those are not optional beliefs. They are the bedrock of belief

that if that has gone quiet in our teaching, our preaching, our

daily lives, then we need to re dig the well.

I think maybe Isaac went and he. He re dug Shaka or or worship

bow down. Submit and.

Reverence, physical posture of surrender.

Some people don't like worship, they don't like the idea of of

of bowing down or putting going on their knees or raising their

hand because it's uncomfortable. The reasons it's uncomfortable

is. Because it is.

Surrender. It is.

It is physical surrender, who, unless you're at a ball game and

everyone's doing it, who just goes out and about and just

you'd probably look at them and be like, what?

Are they doing? It is about.

It is about surrender. We don't like that because it

takes getting over self. It takes getting over our pride

for full worship. To take place.

Some of us used to worship. Till the tears flow.

Until chains broke, until the atmosphere shifted.

But maybe it's lacking again. Is it time to re dig the well?

Maybe he went to the the well of.

Of of tism or fasting, abstaining, abstaining.

From food. Or abstaining from things that

are a sacrifice to use spiritual act of consecration.

Maybe, maybe he went to that well that that that we don't

hear about that well much anymore because people don't

like the idea of of sacrifice. You you talk about fasting, you

talk about tithing people getting.

It is sacrifice anything that. Includes us not getting what we

want because we are flesh. We don't like that, but the

whole purpose. Of it is to kill the flesh.

And it invites the spirit to move.

If we neglect that, well, then we avoid.

We avoid it because again, it's uncomfortable if you start

seeing there's a pattern here with some of these wells.

Maybe. Maybe he came across a well of

Shim. I feel like there is a big, big

push against this in the spirit world, spirit of the day, and

that is identity. Lacking identity.

Lacking that that we have, we have we or we're so confused and

we we don't know who we are or who you are and we don't know

what is true and what is not true and the culture is loud and

and what, what but we have we're confused about No, I'm not

confused. I am Apostolic, I am not

confused. I am called I.

I am trying to be holy. I'm trying to be consecrated.

I'm trying to live as a chosen church, ready, ready for him to

come as a bride, being filled with the Spirit and walking in

power. Do not let the enemy cover up

your identity. These wells were never meant to

run dry, ladies and gentlemen. They were never meant to be

stopped up and forgotten or ignored.

I believe now is the time to dig.

I promise you the. Water's still there.

The flow's still moving, but someone has to breakthrough the

surface. The question is, is will you?

Re. Dig the wells, will you re dig

the wells? And I think about it, we've,

we've heard stories why we, we go back to the Azusa St. revival

and, and, and we even go back and just look at the upper room

and just all the great things in that that happened with the

apostles and, and during the book of Acts church and Oh my

goodness, that is fantastic. But those are stories and those

are, those are reminiscent of things that have happened.

But what is happening today? What is what is our story?

We've seen stories, we've seen examples.

We felt the conviction. But the question is, is what are

we going to do about it? Hosea 10. 12 says break up your.

Fallow Ground for it is time to seek the Lord.

Isaiah 44 three says I will pour out water upon him that is

thirsty and floods upon the dry ground.

You see see here with with the church we have been having in

this past month. I believe that their Bishop, I

believe there's been some people that have been re digging some

wells. This hasn't happened on

accident, God just. Didn't, didn't oopsie and be

like, oh, I guess they're going to have some better church now.

Oops, I spilled something. No, this was not an accident.

I believe there's been some people that have gone back to

heard about some wells from some people around here, heard about

some revival that has happened around here and they're like, I

want that, I want some of that. How do I get?

That and they go back. To some wells maybe that have

been neglected or maybe just maybe there's been some people

around them that have been showing them.

This is the well that I draw from.

This is the well. This is what we, we, the prayer

room back here. Oh my goodness, the prayer room.

Come on, keep it up. Keep it up.

Whether you realize it or not, that starts service.

That starts service. People have been re digging some

wells I've been seeing. People standing out and, and

getting out of their comfort zone.

Again, comfort standing, getting out of their comfort zone and

and what they're doing really is they're taking their shovel and

they're stepping out. And they're saying I've been

told. That this is one of the wells.

And so I'm going to, I'm going to put my shovel here.

I'm going to draw from the the well or maybe there's been

something that's been been lacking and they decide, you

know what, I've heard about it. It's been preached, Bishop.

Maybe it's talked about it. Pastors maybe talked about it to

me. You know what?

I'm going to find that well. I'm going to find that well.

They told me where it's at. I'm going to re dig it and we're

going to start seeing something around here.

We're going to start seeing something around here.

We're going to re dig some wells.

And when that happens, God is going to be welcomed.

He's going to say there's something going on and I want to

be a part of it. I'm going to be I'm going to be

I'm going to be in this presence right here.

I'm going to be alone. I'm going to be with these

people re digging those. Wells something.

Starts starts to change again. I don't know who's been re

digging the wells, but guess what?

It's impacted all of us when people are.

Drawn from the wells, we are all.

Partaking and you know what that means?

I think that means that if you're, if you haven't been re

digging some wells, then I think if you've been able to partake

of what's been going on, you should start digging yourself.

You should start drawing yourself.

Say that's that tastes good. Well, imagine what it tastes

like every day. Imagine what it's like for

consecration and to God. You can't re dig a well in

theory. You can't uncover the water.

Uncover the water by talking about it.

At some point you have to. Pick up the shovel and.

You decide, Lord, I want more than what I've been living with.

I've I refuse to stay dry when I know, I know.

I've been told there is a well and there is a river that I can

draw from. All the music can come.

Don't live another day. I don't want to live another day

in a place where there is no water when I know where to dig.

Do not live in a dry place when you know where to dig.

Could you stand with me tonight? I don't know what.

Your circumstance is I don't know what.

You need to to re dig in your life for consecration to God.

But what I do know is if your player life has been dried up,

re dig, re dig, couple up with someone that you know draws from

the well and maybe get a little bit of some of that.

Get a little bit of some of that.

If your worship has lost its weight and lost its meaning, you

need to re dig. Maybe maybe it's because you got

uncomfortable at some point. And, and I feel like and with

the worship that we've been having in the services we've

been having, you shouldn't have to feel uncomfortable by this

point. There have been things that have

been happening that that have been different and

uncomfortable, But guess what? They've been great.

And you shouldn't have to feel uncomfortable about that.

Maybe your passion has been. Buried under.

Disappointment and distraction. Well, maybe you need to

undistract yourself, dig yourself from the surface of of

the dirt. Maybe there's something that is

there that does not need to be there, but today you can.

Dig. Again, you do not need a new

well, you just need to remove the dirt.

You just need to clear out the compromise, clear out the

laziness, clear out the fear and the pain, you might say and.

You might feel I don't feel. Anything any more than you need

to dig, you need to find that well and find find that water

again. You might say it's been too

long. Well, I tell I'm here to tell

you it doesn't matter how long you can come back and you can re

dig that well. You can draw from that well once

again. And you might say, I don't know.

How well then you? Need to find somebody, find

someone to help you mentor you to, to dig those wells for

yourself. I wonder if we could come to

these altars are open then I win.

When you do, when you dig, the water will rise, the spirit will

flow, the dry places will become rivers again.

There will be fruitful ground. But coming to alter and saying I

want the well back God break up this.

Dry ground help. Me, Help me, God, to restore the

flow that once was. Let your presence run through my

life again. Oh God, this is your will.

I'm going to draw from it. I'm going to.

I'm going to give myself to you. I'm going to consecrate myself

once again to you. Oh, this is your God.

This is your moment. This is this is your altar.

This is this is your well, God. I'm just picking up a shovel and

I'm, I'm redigging something that that I haven't been, I

haven't been to in a while. I've been away for some time

and, and I, I, I've, I've maybe sat on the Pew many years and,

and not necessarily been consecrated with the wells, but

God, I, I've returned here today.

I've returned here to, to come back to covenant consecration.

Lord that I would re dig and this in my life, that I would

find this in my life and and it would be good and you would see

it as good. So re dig the wells.

Hallelujah. Signs are obvious.

They are everywhere. All that we hear about is the

gloom and despair. Too many would be prophets

saying it's the end of it all. This whole earth can.

Take. Much more.

The Hammer's gone afar. So nature has its needs.

That's a lesson learned, but it. Appears to me.

There are greater concerns, for we can't save the planet

thinking we will somehow survive Jesus Christ is.

Calling. Us to see somebody's life.

I won't bend, I won't break, I won't water down my feet.

I. Won't compromise in a world of

desperation. What has been I?

Cannot. Change for tomorrow and today.

I must be a light for future generations.

I won't. Bend.

And I won't breathe. I won't water down my pain.

I won't compromise in a world of desperation.

What has been? I cannot change before tomorrow

man. Today I must be alive for future

generation. If we can find a way.

To preserve our faith so those who follow.

US. See the price that was paid,

Then maybe when they question what it's going to take to

survive, they'll find a string to carry on.

And what we leave behind 'cause I won't bend and I won't reign,

I won't water down my fate. I won't compromise the world of

desperation. What has been, I cannot change

for tomorrow and today. I must be in line for future

generation. If we can find a way.

To preserve our faith, those who follow.

US. Could see the price that was

paid then maybe when they question what it's going to take

to survive, they'll find a string to carry on in what they

leave behind. So I won't be and I won't pray.

I won't water down my faith. I won't compromise in a world of

desperation what has been. I cannot change before tomorrow

and today. I must be alike for future

generation. I won't bend and I won't break.

I won't water down my fate. I won't compromise In a world of

desperation what has been. I cannot change before tomorrow

and today. I must be a light.

Future. Generation what has been I

cannot change for tomorrow and today.

I must feel aligned for future generation.

I must feel aligned for future generation.

Hallelujah. There's a lyric there in that

song that says what has been. I can't change but you have the.

Power and the control over your. Now who's?

Left the well who's? Discarded the well who filled

the well. You can't change that.

But what you do now, what you do for your life, your family, your

church, your loved ones, the impact of the Now you need to re

dig a. Modern.

Day example of this, Mike, was it not been that long ago when

they were clearing everything there on your property?

You told me about a well that was on your property.

Did you know about that? Well, you knew about it.

It was it covered up or filled in?

Pardon me. It was underneath the patio.

But when didn't you say just about 3 feet deep and that thing

was bubbling? 25 foot deep but so far.

In it was bubbling, wasn't it? Had a spring going in it been

there for. Years.

Been there for years. Still there, still viable.

If a person. Wanted to tap into it.

They could. It's still viable.

Amen. It just sometimes you got to

just move stuff out of the way, uncover, expose.

It's there. It's.

There you look at. Yourself and say it's there.

It's it's there. Amen.

Just. Got to re dig.

Rediscover, come back in contact a man with it.

So all those things that he spoke of, even these, you know,

probable wells that we need to come just get back in.

They're there, they exist, they're still viable, a man that

they feed into the life and as he also said, the life then of

others. Hallelujah.

Let's pray right now if we can for Sister Krista tonight, Amen.

God was moving upon her heavenly this morning.

Father, we pray God by your spirit.

We could find a way. To preserve our faith so those

who follow us could see the price that was paid.

And maybe when they question what it's going to take to

survive, they'll find a street to carry on and what we leave

behind. So I won't mean and I won't

reign. I won't mind down my face.

I won't compromise. In a world of desperation, what

has been? I cannot change before tomorrow.

We're today. I must be in light the future

generation. And I won't bring.

I won't water down my fate. The world will compromise.

In a world of desperation, what has been I?

Cannot. Change or tomorrow with today

it's been a. Light for future.

Generation. I won't bend and I won't.

Break. I won't water down my fate.

I won't compromise. In a world of desperation, what

has been I cannot change for tomorrow and today.

I must be in light for future generation.

Today I won't mean and I won't break.

I won't water. Down.

My pain. I won't compromise in a world of

desperation. What?

Hurts mean I cannot. Change before tomorrow.

We're today. I must be enlightened for future

generation. If we could find a way to

preserve our faith so those who follow us could see the price

that was paid, then baby, when they question what it's going to

take to survive, find the street to carry on in what we leave

behind. I won't bend and I won't break.

I won't water down my face. I won't compromise.

In a world of desperation, what has been I cannot change.

For tomorrow and today, ask me a light.

For future. Generations.

I won't bend and I won't. Break.

I won't water down my faith. I won't compromise.

In a world of desperation, what has been?

I cannot change before tomorrow and today.

I must be light for future generation.

I won't be and I won't breathe. I won't water down my fate.

Compromise. In a world.

Of desperation has been I. Cannot.

Change before tomorrow and today.

I must be a light for future generation.

I must be a light for future generation.

Yes, I must be a light for future generation.

Lord, take me back to that old land where?

I'll make a new coming. Back and begin a fresh start.

Help me find in my direction. Place a bird in my heart.

Lord, take me back to that world.

Land Lord, take me back to that world old landmark where I'll

make a new commitment and begin the first time.

Help me find my direction. Place abroad in.

My heart. Lord, take me back to that old

lamb. Lords, take me back to that old

lamb where I'll make a new coming.

By. And begin the.

Fresh start, help me find my direction.

Place a burn in my heart. Lord, take me back to that old.

And. Help me hide my direction.

Place a word in my heart. Lord, take me back to that old.

Read. Dig it.

Amen. You need to.

Be thinking this week about. What you might be able to read,

dig, Amen. And not just think, but act

Amen. Hallelujah.

Just two things as we depart tonight #1 those that are going

to prison. If you've not informed Sister

McGee or didn't sign this morning what your arrangements

are about, whether you need transportation or not, you need

to let her know that. Number two, we are gathering

large packages of water, like the 3640 number packages of

water, and we need 20 of those. There's a couple back there

tonight and still bring that on Wednesday.

And you'll be able to contribute by that way.

You'll be a water boy or a water girl, Amen, in the ministry of

prison ministry. Amen.

And do that to, to be of some help.

We appreciate that. We'll be here on Wednesday.

We are in Genesis, all right. And so we're continuing in

Genesis chapter #12 Amen, this week.

And we'll have a good, good, good time and be expecting.

Let me just say this to set your expectations.

Next Sunday morning service will be longer than typical.

Okay, I'm just setting the expectation.

It's going to be longer than typical, but we'll have a good

time. All right, Going to have a good

time, But many of you are going to be wore out because you've

been to prison, but it's going to be the best wore out.

You've been all right, So we're going to have a good time.

Amen in the Lord God bless you today.

Have a great I was getting ready to say week and have a great

week. Amen in the Lord.

Amen. And go on the power of this word

tonight.